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      The History of the Candle Snuffer

      Posted by Hampshire Pewter on 10/31/2014 to
      Did you know that the bell-shaped cone at the end of a long handle that you use to put out your candles isn’t really a snuffer? Colloquially, we refer to anything that puts out candles now as a snuffer, but in fact the tool we know as a snuffer is actually an “extinguisher” or candle “douter.”
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